Gotta Love Simmons

that is the worst trade for the knicks…. so dumb.

Simmons is a doosh

I have been looking at that trade for over ten minutes now, and I still can’t come up with a single reason that the Knicks would do this trade. It’s essentially a swap of Toney Douglas for TJ Ford (horrible), Wilson Chandler and Turiaf for Peja (Thanks, but we have Gallo), plus we throw in Azibuike, CURRY’S EXPIRING, and $3 Million!!! That is dreadful. Sorry, but Isiah isn’t the GM anymore/yet.

RU F***IN KIDDIN ME! GO GET MENTAL HELP!!

horrible trade for the Knicks!!

Who is Bill Simmons?

And why would he think that the Knicks would want to do that…?

does this even merit a post?

he’s trying to be funny and rile up knick fans

That is the dumbest trade I’ve ever seen. This from a guy that doesn’t have any perspective from a Knick standpoint. That trade is like giving up Eddy Curry straight up for Chris Paul.

The Isiah Thomas of the trade machine.

What an awful hypothetical trade. And he calls himself the trade machine picasso? More like the trade machine pre-schooler with finger paint. What a dolt.

What a tool! ROFL! Are you kidding me? that was a joke right?

Simmons likes pissing on knick fans for attention. Whatever. Found this interesting on hooopsworld:

“Just days before “The Decision” aired on ESPN, James and Paul had a lengthy phone conversation with Amar’e Stoudemire, who had just signed with the New York Knicks. The trio discussed the possibility of playing together in New York. Stoudemire was already there, James would sign next, and then Paul would demand a trade to the Knicks.”

http://tinyurl.com/3xe4ker

To be fair..it includes the Knicks so I guess. lol

That clearly didn’t work out for whatever reason.

Why exactly are we getting involved in that?

He must be smoking to much pot

The Knicks are going to give up salary cap flexibility in 2011 for Peja and Ford? Uhhhh, I don’t think so.

Can someome re-tweet Bill “WHY?!”

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

is this legal? and would you guys do this if it is what it took?

You have to “save” it and then get the updated URL for it to link.

the link is wrong but its the 3 guys we got from GS curry chandler douglas for okafor paul anyone interested?

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=27zbta5

thanks

wow thats our whole team, ha, jeez.

LMFAO

That’s a no-brainer. Bigger question is would you be willing to give up Gallo AND Randolph. I would.

I think that’s the best deal

Fair trade

Eddy Curry
Ronny Turiaf
Kelenna Azabuike
Wilson Chandler
Anthony Randolph
Toney Douglas

For

Chris Paul
Emeka Okafor

Official theknicksblog trade proposal lol?

Very interested. Can’t turn down a deal like that for a franchise PG. Yes, I did say the same thing when we got Marbury but hopefully we won’t get struck by lightening twice.

that will never happen. NO doesnt even have enough roster spots.

KEEP GALLO AND RANDOLPH!

They have 9 players under contract – 4 additional player will fit in I believe.

Paul
Walker
Gallinari
Stoudemire
Okafor

+ Felton, Mozgov

That’s a powerhouse with a bright future in the East. You know I love the kid but I couldn’t care less about Randolph if we can build a championship team and somehow keep the italian stallion.

works for me lol

They are both expirings

I can only imagine that the ONLY benefit of that trade for NY is to clear more cap space to sign FAs.
Fors and Peja come off the books for $22.7mil
Both those guys can contribute off the bench, but we can do better.

first off, i highly highly doutb chris paul is going anywhere. if you trade a top 5 player in the game, you might as well just shut down the franchise. NO fans are good fans, but i doubt they would tolerate trading paul.

secondly, gallinari an randolph will have to be included in the deal imo. and im in walsh i say flat out “no thank you.”

for one, gallinari randolph felton (in mikes system) > than paul and okafor

okafor has a killer contract and although paul is a phenomenal player (top 5) it scares me to think that both he and amare have severe knee issues.

listen, u all know i how feel about gallo. in regard to randolph, i think this kid has hall of fame skills and i personally feel like mike will get the best out of him. lets stand pat, develop our kids, and give ray felton a chance in mikes system before we trade two studs plus more young talent for paul and okafor. i am extremley excited about seeing this young core develop. get me another shooter and were lookin like a 6 or 7 seed imo.

I put together one. AR, wil, curry, and turiaf or azubuke plus a future 1st to new Orleans for Paul and posey. Néw Orleans also sends emeka to Detroit who send prince’s expiring to no. Works under cap. Pistons finally get a true center (plus dinars seems to have no grasp of what constitutes a bad deal).. NO gets a ton of cap space coming off the books and get actual young
pieces. Knicks get their guy.

Now maybe new Orleans can get more, I don’t know, but this wouldn’t be terrible for them.

Ha, that sucks. I would love Paul, but not at the expense of sending back a lot of young building blocks. Paul gets hurt and complains a lot. I think that Felton has got some real balls taking only a 2 year contract with an unguaranteed 3rd year while everyone else around him was signing for ridiculous numbers. He’s telling the world he’s got something to prove and he’s going to prove it in NY. I love that and it’ll be most interesting to see what he can bring with Dant’s offense.

My preference would be to settle down with this group and then try to get Melo next year. I think that a starting group that includes AR, Amare, Melo and Galo would be quite the crew in the eastern conf. Throw in Turiaf and the Russian to hip check Lecon and Bosh into the first row and we’d at least be getting back to the early 90s.

Then again, we never won a championship in the 90s either so what do I know. But at least it was fun.

If we give up all of this, what do we have left; Stod, Paul and what else?

“KEEP GALLO AND RANDOLPH!”

your half right, keep Randolph!

I’m glad there are still Knicks fans with some sense. There is no way I trade half the team for Paul and Okafor. The Hornets crippled their franchise with Okafor’s contract and he would have the same effect here. It’s a really stupid move, especially since there are lots of other options out there.

HA WOW, not even Isiah could have dreamed up a trade that sh*tty. We give up half our roster in return for a few extra mil of cap room next summer while helping Orlando acquire Chris Paul??? That has got to be a joke. I’d be outside Donnie’s office with a torch and a pitchfork if that actually went down.

That is a terrible trade idea.

LOL, not only would the Knicks not make that trade, but they’d never help someone else acquire Chris Paul.

Horrible, horrible, horrible……

NY is in the driving seat. Sit back and wait for Melo and then wait for CP3 when he comes available in two years. Amare & Melocan sway CP3 to choose NY when his contract is up. NY should not be in a hurry because we do have chips when the time comes for us to make decisions next year and in the coming future!

Don’t need to get caught up with ignorant folks making crazy speculations. It’s oftly quiet in the Melo camp. It seems he knows what he going to do and NY waiting in the cut:>)

Bill Simmons is a Bird.

http://tiny.cc/l51t2

Eh, it could work, but I don’t know if Rip Hamilton would agree…

Ha. +1

A guess a perennial 50-win team is a ridiculous suggestion?

Paul
Gallinari
Stoudemire
Okafor

Can do better than what our current roster will ever be capable of doing.

@ Jahno

That trade is the worst…click this link its a 3 way trade btw the knicks, hornets and blazers…both the knicks and blazers benefit from the trade while the hornets get a lot of good young talent/expiring contracts and you can include future first round picks…
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2abjgcc

Simmons is the best sports writer of this generation, his style is unique, he is prolific in the extreme, he is witty, humorous, fearless and usually right on target. Unfortunately the NY Knicks are his kryptonite; their relevance renders him unable to functio and in these tweets he truly seems unbalanced.